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By Mahatma das

Yamuna devi said in an interview on the film, Women of Bhakti, “When you live bhakti, you give bhakti.” It’s true. What you live is what you give.

I once attended a workshop facilitation training in which we were taught that many people will come to our trainings with the mindset of “I already know that.” They explained that they might know of it, about it, or are familiar with it, but they don’t know it unless they live it.

So if our audience thinks they already know what we wil

By Sri Bhakti Das

For the second time in the history of Chilean Courts Krishna Sambandha made a cultural preaching program in the Supreme Court of Justice. This time the President, Mr. Hugo Dolmestch received the biography of his Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.

The activity consisted of a concert with devotional dance by the renowned maestra Usha Vikas, a brief talk on Vaisnava philosophy, a prasad cocktail and free distribution of Srila Prabhupada’s books to all attendees

14 January 2018, Mumbai.
Sunday, on the eve of Makar Sankranti and the 40th anniversary of Juhu Sri Sri Radha Rasabihari temple, the most awaited book launch of Bombay Is My Office took place amidst a respected gathering of nearly 10000 devotees, congregation members, friends and well wishers who had gathered on Jamnabai Narsee School Ground, Juhu Mumbai to celebrate the occasion.

Bombay Is My Office was launched by His Excellency Padmanabh Acharya, the Governor of Nagaland. Several dignitarie

In Vrindavan, at one point I was the Temple President. It was a very big temple so I never had a peaceful moment! Prabhupada made a rule that the Temple President was to sign off on every cheque that went out of the temple and there were lots of cheques every day. Lots of them and people would come all the time, “Please can you sign this? Please can you sign this?” Sometimes even I was in the shower, they would knock on the door and say, “Please, open up, can you sign this cheque?”

Sometimes I

By Giriraj Swami

Opening the Juhu Temple

Before the Vrindavan temple opening, Srila Prabhupada had instructed us to organize it the way Maharaja Yudhisthira had organized the Rajasuya sacrifice, with a prominent person in charge of each department. As stated in Krsna, “King Yudhisthira arranged to perform the Rajasuya sacrifice. He invited all the qualified brahmanas and sages to take part and appointed them to different positions as priests in charge of the sacrificial arena.”

For the Juhu tem

Like so many things, both Economy and Cow Protection can exist in the Mode of Ignorance, the Mode of Passion and the Mode of Goodness. And although the Economic models can be perceived easily through the different modes of Nature, its way more difficult to differentiate Cow Protection within the different modes of Nature. It’s only been within the last 20 years or so that Cow Protection has taken on any kind of form. That it is not just a bunch of cows hanging around a field with red hands all

Rupa-vilasa: We were spending a little time with Prabhupada’s God-brother Krsna das Babaji Maharaj with whom he had a very affectionate relationship.
He was telling us the story of Prabhupada’s taking sannyas and he said,
“The ceremony was going on. With Kesava Maharaj overseeing and conducting the initiation, Narayana Maharaj was chanting the mantras and I was doing bhajan. But as is my habit I got a little too loud.
“So Kesava Maharaj was making a gesture with his hand palm down as if to say,

Purushottam Nitai Das: We are so serious, so enthusiastic and so happy when we are just about to receive the beads from our spiritual master during the initiation ceremony. We promise to ourselves that as soon as we will get the beads we will chant not just 16 rounds but many more rounds with utmost sincerity, will follow the 4 regulative principles not just carefully but with extraordinary determination and with extraordinary zeal will serve the mission of Srila Prabhupada.
And in fact, for fe

By Malati Devi Dasi

The 40th Anniversary of the ISKCON Juhu Epic is being celebrated with great enthusiasm with legions of Srila Prabhupada’s personal pioneers who have arrived to Radha Rasabihariji’s campus to honor and recall the glories of this maha adventure of serving Srila Prabhupada in Bombay. What to speak of the incredible darshans of Their Divine Lordships. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, our Lord and Master, His Divine Grace!
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Evening Venue: Jamnabai Narsee

“Parikrama is a revival of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s pastimes.”

– His Holiness Lokanatha Swami

Since its inception by His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada in 1918, the Gaudiya Vaisnavas have been performing parikrama around Sri Navadvipa Mandala. 2018 will mark the one hundred year anniversary of performing Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama.

In 1972, Srila Prabhupada and some of his disciples went on parikrama around Sri Navadvipa Dham, and since that time ISKCON M

By Yasodadulal Dasa

“Sense gratification is just like salt.  One cannot take too much or too little but one must take some salt in order to make one’s foodstuffs palatable.”  (Srila Prabhupada SB 3.15.8)

Retracing the steps of Mahatma Gandhi during his famous 1930 Dandi Salt Walk

“In 1930 Mohandas K. Gandhi marched on to the world stage with his non violent message to an international audience.  His simple act of civil disobedience that defied British rule set India as a nation ablaze with the

The new year marks the organisational start of the Vyasa-puja & Kingsday festivals. In April 2018 we will again meet for two wonderful festivals and, of course, the mega harinama in Amsterdam during the Kingsday celebrations. You are again invited to join the party! Reserve your tickets and plan a trip to Radhadesh. Read more info on the official VP pages.

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Festival dates

Join us from 26-30 April 2018 in Radhadesh. The Kingsday

By Madhava Smullen

Until recently in the UK, ISKCON devotees still felt burned out from the old days of authoritarian book distribution programs, where they had been pushed to go out for three-month-long Christmas marathons.

So when Visvambhara Das was named book distribution minister for the UK in 2004, he focused on building a mood of teamwork and devotee care. The marathon was made just three weeks long, and an emphasis was put on making sure book distributors had good prasadam, warm clothes

By Hari Narayana das

Singaraja, known for its beautiful beaches and picturesque sites of natural wonders, is also the most important education hub in Bali, Indonesia. The Hare Krsna Centre or ISKCON at Banyuning, Singaraja or more affectionately called by the devotees there as Sri Radha Gopisvara temple, is unbelievably vibrant considering its small area and very small number of devotees. The main ornament of this centre is the group of very enthusiastic young boys and girls who never miss to c

By Shrutadev Das

In response to Niranjana Swami’s blog posted on Dandavats.com
 
Dear Niranjana Swami,
 
Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
 
I have read your blog on reading about Srila Prabhupada which was posted on Dandavats.com and I can’t tell you how overjoyed I was to read it.  Ever since the Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta was printed, I had gotten into the habit of reading a few pages every morning before I would start chanting my japa; something that I hav

By Madhava Smullen

On January 20th, senior Prabhupada disciple Yogesvara Dasa is bringing “Here Comes the Sun: A Musical and Spiritual Tribute to George Harrison” back to the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City.

The show is based on Yogesvara’s (Joshua Greene’s) 2006 book Here Comes the Sun, which briefly hit Amazon.com’s bestseller list, and was published in five foreign languages.

“There are literally thousands of books that have been published about the Beatles, and a couple of hundred

Question: In CC Adi 17.167 Caitanya Mahaprabhu criticizes Islam as being illogical to Chand Kazi “There are many mistakes and illusions in your scriptures. Their compilers, not knowing the essence of knowledge, gave orders that were against reason and argument.” But in prior verse i.e. 166, he states ” Cow-killers are condemned to rot in hellish life for as many thousands of years as there are hairs on the body of the cow" which is even more illogical and unjust punishment by any standard of Ch

By Karnamrita Das

ENCOURAGING ONE ANOTHER TO STAY THE COURSE OF BHAKTI AND GO THROUGH THE INEVITABLE GROWING PAINS AND AND EVEN DEPRESSION plus A FREE VERSE RAMBLING, "FAILURE IS THE PILLAR OF SUCCESS": As I was waking up I was dreaming of having a conversation to encourage someone who was feeling discouraged and hopeless about their life and their practice of bhakti. I like to think that I write to encourage devotees or in general, the spiritually minded, to have a positive attitude in spite of

By Madhava Smullen 

Three months after the category 4 Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico on September 20th, the U.S. territory’s infrastructure is still far from recovered. Only 20 per cent of traffic lights are powered; forty per cent of Puerto Ricans, especially in the countryside, are still without electricity, and many have barely any running water.

This includes the U.S. territory’s only ISKCON temple, which had its roof, veranda and porch ripped off in the storm. Devotees are still st